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Summer Book Meme

Here is a quick variation on the iTunes meme from yesterday intended specifically for those who have written books.
All you need to do is:

Copy the entire text of your book to the clipboard.
Go to Wordle.net, open a new Wordle and paste the text.
Change all the style settings et voila! Some art to complement your publication.

Here’s [...]

Summer iTunes Meme

Every day you chase the carrot and are about 99% certain you’ll never get to cut it into sticks and serve it along side a tuna melt and some 5-Alive. Today, fate has intervened and granted Miss Mussel a small taste of success.
Ladies and gents, boys and girls, music nerds of all genres–
The Omniscient [...]

Book Meme Vol. 2

Posting has slowed to a crawl here at OM headquarters although that is not in anyway indicative of a diminishing in the Things That Need Doing department. Miss Mussel will be away from the internet [GASP] most of next week at the cottage and will be devoting much energy to evening it out her [...]

Book Meme

Just when Miss Mussel was about to give up hope of finding anything remotely interesting to post today, Oboe Insight comes to the rescue with this meme.
1. Pick up the nearest book.
2. Open to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people, and acknowledge who tagged you.
The results here [...]

Jumping Off A Cliff

If Wellsung, Soho The Dog, Steve Smith and La Cieca are doing it, then so is Miss Mussel.
It’s the birth opera meme. Courtesy of the Met’s archives, you can find out what was playing on the day you were born.
For those born in summer, when the Met is shut, the rule seems to [...]

Can Someone Please Pass The Kleenex?

There looks to be a bit of a meme going around related to music that makes one misty-eyed. After a little thinking, it seems that, for Miss Mussel, the culprit is Mahler, followed by Brahms.
Mahler’s Second Symphony was the most recent instance. The TSO performed it in the spring and the [...]

Soho The Dog: Autumn Quiz

1. What’s the best quotation of a piece of music within another piece of music?
Without a doubt, Miss Mussel has to nominate In A Vernacular Way (1990) for solo harpsichord by Canadian composer Peter Hatch. Where else can Super Mario Brothers theme music happily rub shoulders with Jimi Hendrix and 18th century dance forms?

2. Name [...]